Forbidden Zone!
To Lin Qi, this term had always seemed like the boundary of the world itself. All he knew was that the Forbidden Zone was a place none of the races could set foot in.
As for what lay within the Forbidden Zone, no one knew. They only knew that it had enveloped the Four Domains for over a century.
However, maps of the known world from a hundred years ago showed that the Four Domains occupied only a tiny portion of it. Yet people seemed to have no interest in exploring the Forbidden Zone beyond the Four Domains. Even City of Light Chasing's core intelligence files contained no information on expeditions into the Forbidden Zone beyond the Four Domains.
Lin Qi had never imagined that the Four Domains' top powers had been exploring the Forbidden Zone outside the Four Domains all along.
After hesitating for a moment at Lin Qi's question, Hong Lao finally gritted his teeth and said, "Originally, all the major powers exploring the Forbidden Zone kept this matter secret. But now that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall is qualified to explore it as well, even if I tell you, it probably won't count as breaking the rules."
"The reason it is called a Forbidden Zone is not because it is some desolate wasteland. On the contrary, it is a place where life flourishes exuberantly. It is just that the energy within is incomparably dense and violent. Ordinary people simply cannot survive there. Only Organ Refining Realm martial artists, whose internal organs have been greatly enhanced, can barely survive within it."
"Then doesn't that make the Forbidden Zone a good place?" Lin Qi asked, slightly surprised.
Energy was crucial to a martial artist's training. The denser the energy in a place, the more beneficial it was to